Deans Council Minutes

Deans Council Minutes

1-3-2002

NOTE: At times, issues of confidentiality may require that some items discussed in meetings be excluded from these minutes.

PRESENT: Bill Barnes, Dick Aynsley, Joel Fowler, Alan Gabrielli, Mike Murphy, Sandy Pfeiffer, Dawn Ramsey, Judy Waits

1. Miscellaneous:

Regarding grade appeals, all parties should strictly follow the P&P--especially with respect to documentation at all stages of the appeal and to timeliness of response.
Deans are to sign all sick leave forms for faculty.
Part-time faculty are invited to attend and sit with full-time faculty at graduations, if they wish.
If possible, deans are to help staff the math program registration next week by releasing their secretaries for part of the time. Carolyn Magee's last day is this week.

2. Update on Budget:
Fowler stated there probably will be no money to bail out areas that run short before the end of the fiscal year. Deans are to review all free balances in their respective programs. They are empowered to make adjustments within their own school and program budgets.

3. Workload Committee:
Fowler said the Workload Committee, at Pfeiffer's request, will revise the Faculty Expectations P&P by early February.

4. Advising Pilot Program:
Gabrielli reported that the pilot A&S advising program will continue. All math majors and all first-year physics majors are being advised this year. Next year all first-year Arts and Sciences majors, up to 35 hours, will be advised. It was noted that Sandra Vasa-Sideris has been invited to an upcoming Deans Council meeting to share her ideas on advising.

5. P&Ps:
Pfeiffer is coordinating revision of the SPSU P&Ps. He has hired a graduate student for project support this term. Fowler is working to ensure that we have a current set of P&Ps on the web.

6. Enhancement Report:
Follow-up work to the report will be discussed at a future meeting. Deans should be thinking about strategies for discussing main topics with faculty.

7. Toy's Interdisciplinary Degree Proposal:
Deans are to choose one faculty member from each school to serve on a committee proposing a new degree program. Ramsey will chair the group. Deans should send Waits committee nominations by the end of next week.

8. Next Meeting:
The main agenda next week will be a discussion of faculty to recommend for temporary full-time contracts and for non-tenure-track contracts, now that we have clarity from the BOR about allowable categories.